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Hey Product Hunt, I'm Chelsea from IFTTT 👋

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Hey everyone! I'm Chelsea. I work on the content and marketing side at IFTTT. Been reading around here for a while, finally decided to stop lurking and actually show up. I've also run a few of our launches here on PH, so if you've seen an IFTTT launch recently, that was mine 🤭. Feel free to poke around!

My day-to-day is basically finding the small repetitive tasks people deal with, then writing about how to solve it through automation, whether that's a blog post or an email, in a way that actually shows what it looks like in someone's day.

Before IFTTT I didn't think much about automation at all. Now I can't look at a repetitive task without immediately wondering what it would take to make it happen on its own. Every doorbell camera, every spreadsheet someone's manually updating, every person posting the same photo to four apps one at a time, I see it now and think "that shouldn't take you five minutes."

Excited to actually be part of this community instead of just reading it. If you're building something, I'd love to hear about it, and if you're the type who's automated something a little weird or oddly specific, even better, that's usually my favorite kind of story.

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Since I asked, feels fair I go first!

My very first automation was simple: Weather Underground's daily forecast, dropped straight into Google Calendar every morning.

I'm just not someone who checks the weather. I'll leave the house in a t-shirt during a windstorm, no umbrella in actual rain, the whole thing. But I check my calendar constantly, out of pure habit. So instead of trying to become someone who remembers to check a weather app, I made the forecast show up somewhere I was already looking anyway.

Now it's just there every morning next to my 9AM meeting: "62°, rain likely." I don't have to remember to look for it, it's already in the one place I was going to look.

Small one, but it's the one that got me hooked. Once you automate around your actual habits instead of trying to build new ones, it's hard to stop finding more of them.